Re: Next Release of POI

oduct. Moreover POI is at this point the gold standard as far as a largest deployment base and we have good commercial support and service via SuperLink. -Andy Thank you in advance Ravi.n - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: First release of POI with hwpf? When?

confident than previously for a particular timeframe commitment. PLEASE DISREGARD ALL HWPF INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE. THE CURRENT CODEBASE CAN AT LEAST BE CONSIDERED DEPRECATED. -Andy Tommy Sandstr?m wrote: Hi all, I hope someone could give me some answer on these questions: At what poin

Re: String Encoding (again)

kinda...but...also have to worry about construction http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#String(byte[],%20int,%20int) http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#String(byte[]) Jason Height wrote: Andy, So if i did an audit over the code and made

Re: Modifying HSSFCell string values and SST record

this costs more memory) keep reference counts in the SST and support an "an autocoalesce" method such that it can do it automatically; however, I really don't want to have that happen by default (too much memory used up for ref counts + too much processor for looking them up on every

Re: Unable to get paragraphs from test.doc

We have a complete rewrite of this code. It will be released to open source before too long. -Andy Peter Wooster wrote: I was trying to run some coverage tests against HWPF and found that I can't get the first paragraph of the file scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/data/tes

Re: Updating the website

mated script running the website but I was asked to shut it down. -Andy Nick Burch wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Avik Sengupta wrote: Usually we try to keep all files group(jakarta) writable.. I'm not sure how receptive the infra group will be about a new unix group. Your suggestions be

Re: [VOTE] Development Release

+1 Mikael Sitruk wrote: +1 -Original Message- From: Glen Stampoultzis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 15:48 To: POI Developers List Subject: [VOTE] Development Release From searching the site docs it's not clear to me whether we need a formal vote to do a dev

Re: Writing unit tests for the powerpoint code

ords for awhile that also generated unit tests (recordgenerator is in cvs)...not sure if its useful for powerpoint. Sorry to be such a hard ass, it didn't start out that way over night. :-) -Andy Nick Burch wrote: Hi All I've been following the discussions on unit testing the formula code w

Re: specification / RFC for OLE2

. -Andy . Joe Cyboski wrote: Does anyone have any infomation on where I could find the details or specification for Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format. In particular I need to find out if a certain sequence of characters could apear in a document. I have an application that reads

Re: POI Source Code

So I don't use GUI CVS thingies except occassionally in eclipse for visual DIFFing. First step...upgrade to a recent eclipse milestone (it looses its annoying issue with extssh vs ext in CVS/Root files). Second step, just use eclipse's ant integration. You can even tell it when to run ant an

Re: FormulaEvaluator Partial Implementation

-1 on committing any patches without unit tests anymore. It destabilizes code too much. Even to scratchpad because then the code never moves out of scratchpad. We learned this lesson already. It doesn't matter how good or bad or how much we want it...no unit tests + doco...it stays as patch

Re: Formula Evaluation

Amol Deshmukh wrote: Andy, Thanks for your response. I understand your concern about putting an incomplete impl in the main branch, and the code I have written can very well go in the scratchpad till it is mostly finished. Excellent. I have now refactored the design, so that there is absolutely

Re: Formula Evaluation

less these standards are present and enforced. so if we can integrate this code under those conditions, I think it will make a fine addition. -Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tho I'm personally happy to see POI just as a file format reader... well, as you'd have noticed, its often request

Re: Problems with DDF

Nick Burch wrote: Hi All I'm trying to use DDF to handle the Escher records in PowerPoint, as part of my PowerPoint support. As part of this, I'm seeing quite a lot of problems with the DDF support. What's the best course of action here? Should I file a bunch of bug reports, and discuss if I've

Re: bug 31906?

up of contributors I'd be a bit more aprehensive about it (continue has always been a problem because there are so many "buts" and "rules" about it). Also will need to test that it doesn't break images... Glen is about to commit that stuff (as soon as I find him) -andy A

Re: Detect unicode

I'm betting on the latter. I think the former is legacy code from when we supported 1.22 or something. Avik Sengupta wrote: We currently have two methods to detect unicode characters. Which is better? Primarily on performance. I want to consolidated. There might be other such code scattered!

State of the Union for HWPF

* Unicode support. Question: * There are a couple of people here with some good Word knowledge.. Can anyone give me some pointers on the difference between unicode text storage and non unicode text storage? Glen, Avik and Rainer are scared...commit mes

HWPF issues

ge(); CharacterRun run = r.getSection(0).getCharacterRun(0); run.insertAfter("this is random text inserted by andy",run.cloneProperties()); System.out.println(r.text()); // r.insertBefore("This is a random piece of text

Re: Access library

Please move all licensing discussions off this list. There are more appropriate news groups and apache lists for this. consequently such discussions invite slashdotting which is a form of pure evil. -Andy Kais Dukes wrote: Hi There, If I may, I would like to understand the difference between

Re: Subversion migration

Yeah! What he said. Rainer Klute wrote: Am Montag, den 03.01.2005, 20:59 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Okay but we're not committing to it yet. We need people familiar and I need time to test against OS X which I don't have ATM. I know for sure we don't want to be the first project after

Re: Subversion migration

the redundant CRLF. If you can do the equiv of cvs marking binaries...these are fine. Probably should ignore such questions and let testing find them :) Naw, you convinced folks there is a compelling reason to switch and are being accomidating, thus I'll do my best (though I'm pr

Re: Subversion migration

sure won't hose us ;-) -Andy Henri Yandell wrote: Part of the migration process involves a test deployment that you can then sit and play with. Looking at POI, you seem to have one codebase so the following strategy looks very likely to be the best: jakarta/ poi/ branches/ tags/

[Fwd: Re: HDF should be HWPF in bugzilla]

le occassions). > In that case, we should upgrade to the latest version of blojsom which > has a pretty admin tool. > > To further that effect we could write to "the Dave" and tell him how > much we want multiple users to be able to edit the same effective blog >

Re: HDF should be HWPF in bugzilla

Avik Sengupta wrote: Hi folks... back from a "no replying to emails" short break :) No, I don't have bugzilla admin... and as was pointed out on the infra list, bugzilla only has global "Editcomponents" admins. Apparently Andy has those privs. FWIW, the only project l

Re: Subversion migration

Have they faced any corruption/loss of data/etc? Does Eclipse (my IDE) support subversion? Does IntelliJ support subversion? What consequences will we face if we do not switch? What advantage will the POI project gain by switching given that our directory structure is relatively stable? -Andy He

Re: HDF should be HWPF in bugzilla

ou'll find an "Edit" category under "Actions" at the bottom of the screen. -Andy Rainer Klute wrote: Am Samstag, den 01.01.2005, 01:04 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It takes some putting 1+1 together. As a member you can subscribe to the "infrastructure" l

Re: HDF should be HWPF in bugzilla

It takes some putting 1+1 together. As a member you can subscribe to the "infrastructure" list and ask. 1. Nagoya is going away 2. Bugzilla is not being moved -Andy PS. I have to use Jira for JBoss... I'm hating it. Bugzilla was bad...Jira is worse. Its very pretty bu

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 32903] New: - XBAT Structure differs from documentation

Send it to me please. I'll either look at it or ping marc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG? RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT . ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE CO

Re: HDF should be HWPF in bugzilla

Unfortunately we're going to be more or less forced to swtich to the non-opensource jira for the open source development of POI so we might as well request to be imported now. Rainer Klute wrote: Folks, who knows how and where to configure bugzilla? POI's component list still contains HDF instea

Re: [PROPOSAL] close poi-users

whichever way you decide. I would find the developer questions interesting to skim out of nosiness, if nothing else. ;) But I wouldn't bother subscribing to both lists if they are kept separate. --Andy - To unsubscribe,

RE: Number Problems

The data format for the cell is "General"... No decimal places are specified... Cheers, Andy Day (I'm working with Randy on this...) -Original Message- From: Laubach Shawn Contr OC-ALC/PSB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:30 PM To: '

File Properties??

I would like to write/read properties to/from an Excel document. By properties I'm referring to those under File-->Properties menu. These must be set at the OLE (POIFS) level because I was unable to see any indication of them using BiffViewer. How (if at all) can I access these?? Chee